What’s the Difference Between a Tidal Wave and a Tsunami?

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[@MrThorp1]

do you guys even look at or review these deals and sponsors? this is a lousy price point, even at 50% off.

[@simplegunsmith]

With the Whistlerverse having gotten smaller it's nice to see more videos from Simon.

[@awsumaustin7650]

It's sad, but I'm sure he has more comin'

[@ericaroggie4065]

My thoughts exactly!

[@Dean89420]

Whatd u miss? I seen a biographics video that was some smol brain brit with hair. Is he quitting certain channels

[@SoakintheSchadenfreude]

​@@Dean89420biographics, geographics, and top tenz he is no longer part of.

[@alaintobin6690]

A familiar face is nice to see

[@southwestphilomath807]

I always enjoy the tidal wave of Simon’s videos.

[@KariHaruka]

Being in Japan, I feel fine when there is an earthquake or typhoon. A tsunami, however, though? Out of all the natural disasters that I could face in Japan, a tsunami is the one that I fear the most.

[@flowleopard893]

Being South African, all of what you mentioned will truly shake me up with a good dose of fear.

[@burakoshimazaki]

Do you live next to the ocean?

[@KariHaruka]

@@burakoshimazaki Live right next to the ocean. I am a keen surfer and I love living by the sea and admiring her beauty. But I also have respect for how dangerous she can be.

[@shaymarie878]

We have bore tides in Alaska on the Cook Inlet. It’s pretty cool and people even surf it!

[@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling]

Being from England Simon I thought you might have mentioned the Severn Bore.

[@prudencepineapple9448]

Reminds me of the 'Horizontal Waterfalls' in the Kimberly region of far north Western Australia. A horrific tourist boat crash occurred there recently, from memory.

[@oberstul1941]

A tidal wave is by definition a wave caused by ocean tides, whereas a tsunami is almost always caused by an earthquake under water.

[@rundown132]

Saved us 10 mins lol

[@celticlass8573]

Of course for anyone who is interested in learning more about it, not just what the definition is (why would they watch it if they didn't want to know more), it was an interesting and informative video.

[@Bozbaby103]

Earthquake or landslide. They can be above or below water to cause a tsunami.

[@strongestavenger3085]

​@@Bozbaby103 or volcano eruption

[@Bozbaby103]

@@strongestavenger3085 Yuppers. Didn’t want to muddy the waters so I left it out.

[@fruitbatcat]

Why has the start of this video got a background sound track which sounds like a 7 year practicing on a recorder in next door's garden? I literally looked out the window until I realized it was this video.

[@bryangoodwin6579]

Oddly specific…

[@dennisvandermarkt8263]

Very informative. Thanks Simon

[@gypsydildopunks7083]

Do a video on the horrific wildfire in Hawaii

[@AaronWilliams-ir7mu]

Simon always lifts my spirit

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love this channel!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@piperjaycie]

You’re the best Simon!!! You could start your own people and places channels! I’m sure your audience will think of some very inventive names.

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Yeah, I think a hell of a lot of people are gonna stop watching the -graphics shows. I know I am. He's like the real life Ron Burgundy.

[@pizzmo8256]

Why!!!!!😢

[@michaelgeorge4614]

Heard the news yesterday. Glad to see something from Simon.

[@kramllewop6183]

Fall? Simon come on man you weren't raised like that 😂

[@andriaduncan5032]

Outstanding vid, Simon! Especially the end -- balance is so grievously overlooked! However, I noticed that the Thames wasn't mentioned at all, but I know in my reading of historical Britain, there's mention of the Thames being a tidal river -- its direction depending on the incoming or outgoing tide. Especially in the downriver areas of the estuary! Isn't that enormous gate thing they built just to control that sort of thing, being so completely at the mercy of the tide?

[@kathyastrom1315]

There are also seiches, which are oscillating waves that occur on confined bodies of water like lakes and seas. The National Weather Service issues warnings for the Great Lakes when conditions are right. They can kill-in 1954, ten people fishing on Chicago piers were swept out to sea and drowned when a seiche rose in Lake Michigan.

[@David-qp9bq]

Oh, thank God it's Simon.

[@piperjaycie]

That new host the other few channels got looks like he lives in his parent’s basement in the 1970s. And I don’t like it!! Hopefully it frees up some time for Simon to do other things and have more family time etc.

[@awsumaustin7650]

Holy shit i didnt know it was poasible to make surfing an endurance competition

[@Underpantsniper]

Today you found out: Hydraulic is Oil. Hydronic is water.

[@boyraceruk]

Not one mention of the Severn Bore. Come on man! :)

[@slymandrake]

Especially as that's where tidal bore surfing was first practiced.

[@KismetBP]

Great video. ❤️🤘

[@afjer]

Thank you for not calling it the Richter scale as that has been out of use for a long time.

[@kdefensemartialarts8097]

Thank you for your videos.

[@dannyboyNS752]

Rafting rhe Tidal Bore here in Nova Scotia (caused by the 16 metre tides) is epic fun.

[@funnyclips2151]

Wooo Atlantic Canada! Wooo New Brunswick! 🇨🇦 . ...we don't get mentioned much. 😆

[@freakfungus]

Being from Atlantic Canada, listening to Simon try to pronounce Shubenacadie was fun

[@pushinkeys]

I used to lifeguard at Typhoon Lagoon at Disney World, and we would have parties where they would raise the waves high and we would ride them on inter tubes to the shore, felt like 5 mins but it was probably more like 1 min, fun af tho!! 😂😂

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Is that like a wave pool or what??

[@pushinkeys]

@@maxbracegirdle9990 it’s a water park with one of the biggest!!

[@joshgodin6087]

I was really wondering if moncton was going to be brought in this. We see the tidal bore twice a day how ever the river also goes by the chocolate River from the sediment that built up.

[@epluribusunum1460]

I’ve always wondered about the popularity of Hokusai’s “The Great Wave”. I see reproductions of it everywhere, on posters, keychains, tote bags, mugs … so, do people ever really LOOK at that thing? It is a moment of terror and tragedy as the people in their small boats are about to be crushed by an impending tsunami. It is not a pretty seascape, is it?

[@barrymccockiner6641]

Is there a formula based on Seismic activity and calculated tidal activity?

[@Terry.W]

We love Simon..

[@mabecka]

The timing!

[@LaylaSpellwind]

"YOLO!" Me: Sitting in bed with an oxygen mask and a helmet.

[@_Doguru]

Is that an Enron coffee mug on your desk, sir?

[@celticlass8573]

Yep. :)

[@JesseWilsonSJ]

That rock with the cormorants on it in Saint John NB with the backwards flowing river barely poking out of the water is around 6 meters tall at low tide.

[@Swiftkitten88]

idk about what other people mean when say tidal wave, but everyone i know means "rouge wave" not "tidal bore". also because since this was somehow not mentioned in the video, tidal bores are caused by the moon being directly overhead. the rising of the water is caused by the gravity of the moon pulling it up an extremely small amount and then the mouth of the river causes that small amount to be bigger. tidal wave, quite simply means a wave cased by the tide.. aka your normal beach waves. interesting though that when i majoired in geology our teacher who taught us about tidal bores didn't refer to the bay of fundy as one.. ,, the bay of fundy was just the place on earth with the biggest difference between high and low tide. i guess that does fit the description of a tidal bore for the rivers feeding the bay, but interestingly enough we never talked about it as such. in cause you are wondering what rouge waves are.. its when there re big storms and high wind waves and then every so often a multiple waves all constructively interfere to make an absolutely MASSIVE wave

[@pamelamays4186]

The more you know.🌠

[@julianaylor4351]

The tidal bore of the Avon in England is very popular with local surfers, even though it isn't very big.

[@momcat2223]

The snark at the end of this installment was absolutely peak!

[@lwhite4623]

SIMON, you rock!

[@piperjaycie]

What about that ice tsunami, in Canada I think? That was interesting!

[@celticlass8573]

Are you talking about an ice shove? :)

[@CBrison]

as a person from nova scotia, I ask you to pause and say shoe-buh-nack-uh-dee

[@CBrison]

or, even shoe-bin-ack-uh-dee

[@Otokichi786]

1:18 Fresh talk has ended. Tidal Bores, aren't. (Flood tide.)

[@TastyScotch]

YOLO - the argument that works equally well for or against any possible choice 😂

[@IamSam614]

The return of the king

[@warrenbooth2103]

Sunami means or translated means harbour attack.

[@celticlass8573]

That's neat! :)

[@crptpyr]

No, it means harbour wave. it's written as 津波 and it's about as literal as you can get with the first character meaning harbor/port and the second meaning wave.

[@SkylerB17]

today i found out this man has nearly 11.5 million subs across at least 15 KZbin channels. wild. Go Simon

[@julianaylor4351]

A video on wild fires, would be interesting and topical, so long as it dealt with the reasons of them, both natural and manmade, sensitively.

[@bryangoodwin6579]

YOLO is used to express the feeling of doing something adventurous yet dangerous for the once in a lifetime experience, even if that means certain death in extreme circumstances.

[@98erics]

Most rivers that flow into the Atlantic through the tidal planes of the southeastern US reverse flow with the tides daily.

[@stalker-anoniem3515]

Hi Simon, What's that site where you can learn languages easily. I really want to learn Italian. Such a beautiful language. ❤

[@kineticdeath]

YOLO has a dark counterpart - YODO. You only die once

[@A13X_H_22]

Aliens

[@Cody-Coyote]

Lmao I love that you guys are still using the old Simon surprised face from probably 2 years ago or better. Why waste a good thing?

[@ysraeldumadara1039]

Thanks helpful for my Disaster Risk Reduction Management 2nd semester subject....

[@mrs.g6725]

🎉Simon🎉Good to see ya.

[@gonzallas]

Any chance you could start promoting local produce and goods? Also maybe do a video on the true price of farmed goods? Cheaper isnt always better. Maybe we could pay people better so they can afford what farmers should earn?

[@Raz.C]

Simon seems to be talking especially fast in this video. As though someone told him that he's only getting paid for 5 more minutes of work and that if he didn't finish the video in that time, then he wouldn't even get that much!

[@Make_Boxing_Great_Again]

Starts at 1:20

[@ironman44320]

YOLO yeah YODO too.

[@koharumi1]

Tidal waves should just always be called tidal bores. And tsunami called tsunami.

[@ShadowsJusticeVR]

the new top 1

[@auro1986]

you can surf on one and not on the other

[@LoveDoctorNL]

At least factboi is still here

[@RalseiTheHealer]

One of them is a top 1 extreme demon level, while the other one is a big wave.

[@giantred]

So one is tectonic/impact and the other is tidal?

[@celticlass8573]

Yes. The sudden displacement of massive amounts of water through up-thrust of the Earth's crust or something massive like a cliff-face falling into the water, vs water rising because of expected tides.

[@richards4219]

"Fall" Come on, man.

[@adyenlichtwachter6684]

Ah, YOLO indeed~

[@ATerriblepurpose]

Fall Simon? Fall?

[@russellfitzpatrick503]

This is weird, as I'm sure that SW was no longer going to be doing TIFO

[@Epyon18572]

Monster wave: Gojira.

[@planemech8380]

What unfortunately has taken more lives? Is it wars, natural disasters, or plagues?

[@randalmayeux8880]

Plagues.

[@pauls5745]

except most Americans will apply the term Tidal Wave to huge waves that probably are a tsunami and assume it's a translation of the Japanese word, so it becomes cop-opted for it's common usage, making them one in the same, even if there is some technical difference

[@danielboro2000]

Thy finised clieaning the reactors area in less then 6 mountes

[@martinaudet7687]

Yes, but to remove and eradicate all the fallout from that event, so that people can live there again, will take 30 years. At least the Japanese Government is trying to be responsible in its damage control and care of it's future population. Nuclear has never been kind to Japan.

[@danielboro2000]

@@martinaudet7687 the japanese gov allows people to go back from 2019. Radiation is less then 20 milisivers per year at all places. Normal for Japan is 3. Average for Americans is 6 milisivers per year

[@Zackaria_sMax]

40 meters = 131 feet

[@Ozzymandius1]

It’s almost like the difference lies in the name.

[@celticlass8573]

Feel free not to watch it, if that's all you want to know. :)

[@kingjames4886]

isn't one a lot bigger?

[@zuglymonster]

Noooo!!!!! Don't remind me summer is almost over 😭

[@piperjaycie]

Has Simon always talked with his hands so much? Have I literally only just noticed that???

[@roxxychik06]

Is Simone ok? It seems like half the channels he usually host have other people putting up videos. Is he just narrowing down the channels hes doing or is something wrong or what.

[@librasgirl08]

There was an announcement yesterday on the top 10 channel. He left those channels.

[@StrongDreamsWaitHere]

TopTenz, Biographics and Geographics have a new host. There was a disagreement with the daughter of the co-founder (Shell Harris) who took over when Shell unexpectedly passed away. Some of the other channels are being hosted by Daven, who is (I think) Simon’s producer or partner on those channels, and I think that might just be because Simon is too busy to record everything.

[@roxxychik06]

@StrongDreamsWaitHere thank you do much. Top 10 is like his only channel I'm not subscribed to so I didn't know. But I just watched thanks for the 411

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

​@@StrongDreamsWaitHere It's not that Simon is too busy to record, he's just basically cut all ties with them (not in a bad way, it was all agreed upon and nice) so he's never gonna be recording for those channels again

[@adamloverin231]

California. No doubt about it.

[@holgerjrgensen2166]

Tidal-wave, is caused by the Earths slightly slinger motion, Moon just follow the slinger course.

[@FurtiveSkeptical]

The moon IS the slinger. And pulls the high tides with it. ✌️

[@holgerjrgensen2166]

Yaeh, The Moon is also slingering,

[@eaphantom9214]

1 is a Japanese word we use in English 1 is an english description can actually vary in its meaning, BUT usually means MASSIVE! 🌊 + ⛱️ + 🌊 = ⚰️☠️

[@gabucho3869]

>>>>TIDAL>>>>>>

[@LocalBirb]

I was searching for this

[@MLG85]

Isn’t the clue in the names?! Lol

[@celticlass8573]

The video is about much more than the dictionary definition.

[@MLG85]

@@celticlass8573 no sh*t

[@likebot.]

Tidal wave is what an old salt shares with his wife as he sails from harbour on his voyage of adventure and glory. Arrrgh matey, weigh anchor and hoist the sails. We're after Spanish Gold and spice from the Orient we arrrre.

[@benzomanic2972]

Fall is just around the corner and you know what that means! 🤦🤦🤦 Pumpkin Spice

[@marc5445]

*Autumn

[@MsEsquire83]

❤

[@markovenden2524]

After watching this video it's left me with a big question what the beck is this FALL you speak of ?

[@johnmay6090]

What ever it is, it is apparently just around the corner. Better google it I suppose.

[@shaneeslick]

🤔maybe Simon is warning people to watch for a broken footpath 🤷‍♂???

[@johnmay6090]

@@shaneeslick Yes, that's possible. But wait, maybe its a code!?

[@shaneeslick]

@@johnmay6090 😂

[@randalmayeux8880]

Autumn.

[@la_belle_heaulmiere]

I kinda want to call BS on the surfer’s tale of the custom officers. Other than it just being a case of Canadian custom officers being jerks (which they are, their American counterparts are less likely to give you a hard time for no reason), it was 2014. They would have seen many surfer visiting from the USA to play in different waters. Surfing has been a year round popular sport in the Maritimes, particularly Lawrencetown beach, since the 60s. Even if the concept of surfing the bore did strike them as unusual, messing around in tidal bores is a pastime and probably wouldn’t have actually raised many eyebrows. I highly recommend tidal bore river rafting on the Shubenacadie to anyone visiting, particularly in early Sept when the water is the warmest.

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Like deployed 👍

[@jacoblind5390]

In the intro Focusing on the 2011 Japan tsunami and only mentioning the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in passing diminishes it. The 2004 tsunami was far worse. A 9.4 earthquake and the subsequent tsunami killed 225,000 people in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and well as the Maldives, and all the way to Kenya and Tanzania. And because it hit resort areas the day after Christmas people from all over the world were impacted. In fact it’s the deadliest natural disaster in Swedish history. It should never be diminished

[@CroneLife1]

Shubenacadie is pronounced "shoo-bin-ACK-uh-dee", not "shoo-bin-uh-KAY-dee". You have the ackSENT on the wrong sillAbull. If you mispronounced it on purpose, good job! You got engagement! :D

[@andriaduncan5032]

Well, he puts the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble of "contriBUTE" all the damn time! And totally leaves out the middle syllable of "medicine" too!

[@celticlass8573]

Of course, this could have been simply pointed out. It's not like the place is well-known.

[@MrSlicks88]

What about the Severn bore fact boy? Honestly, call yourself an Englishman? 😜

[@romara37]

Yes, tsunami is a Japanese word for tidal wave

[@rabbitonsteroids95]

I guess his videos aren't meant for the average person. I studied up to English 302, and I still have no idea what he's saying by the middle of the video. I came here for the difference between tidal wave vs tsunami. Not all this inlet outlet river jargon.

[@nunya___]

7:40 Wow Simon; are you going deaf? Music was so loud I didn't finish the video...again.

[@celticlass8573]

It might be your speakers. It wasn't overpowering for me at all.

[@nunya___]

@@celticlass8573 Ya, I'm watching this on a TV. Sounds setting are all set to normal.